The Johnson Jaguars and the Steele Knights will compete for holiday cheer at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Johnson is coming into the game on a six-game losing streak.
Johnson managed to keep up with Judson until halftime on Tuesday, but things quickly went downhill from there. The Jaguars were outmatched by the Rockets and fell 59-32. While losing is never fun, the Jaguars can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Texas basketball rankings (they are ranked 690th, while the Rockets are ranked 41st).
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Steele). They took down Canyon 63-46 on Tuesday. The win made it back-to-back victories for the Knights.
The victory got Steele back to even at 8-8. As for Johnson, their loss dropped their record down to 3-12.
Johnson was dealt a bruising 72-41 defeat at the hands of Steele when the teams last played back in January. Can the Jaguars avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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